September 22, 2025 - WASHINGTON—SEPTEMBER 22, 2025—Speaking from the Roosevelt Room today, President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced bold new actions to confront the nation’s autism spectrum disorder (ASD) epidemic, which has surged nearly 400% since 2000 and now affects 1 in 31 American children.

April 11, 2025 - 11 April 2025 · ShareSave · Add ... Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has pledged "a massive testing and research effort" to determine the cause of autism in five months....

August 28, 2025 - How are you doing?” · “We are doing very well,” Kennedy responded. “We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism.

September 16, 2025 - In April, Kennedy promised that he would spearhead a “massive testing and research effort” that would establish autism’s cause “by September.” The study has yet to materialize, but in recent days the secretary has made statements that one researcher called “another round of ‘autism-cause roulette.’ ”

April 11, 2025 - The Autism Society of America finds the Administration’s claim—that “we will know what has caused the Autism epidemic and we’ll be able to eliminate those exposures”—to be harmful, misleading, and unrealistic. Autism is a complex developmental disability shaped by genetic, biological, and environmental factors.

2 weeks ago - And he edited a CDC website to falsely link vaccines to autism. Some of Kennedy’s efforts to trash vaccines have been blocked in court—namely, the changes to the advisory committee and the childhood vaccine schedule.

April 11, 2025 - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting that, by September, his agency will "know what has caused the autism epidemic."

3 days ago - In a contentious interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several false, misleading and baseless claims about the origins of Lyme disease and the respiratory syncytial virus, the COVID-19 pandemic, and what the science shows about autism, vaccination and acetaminophen use during pregnancy.

2 weeks ago - White House has halted changing vaccine schedule as it is unpopular, but anti-vaxx Trump set on ‘alleviating autism’ ... Donald Trump is pushing the longtime vaccine opponent and current health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to be more ...

May 23, 2025 - The more definitive you are, the more it drives public policy." Driving the news: Kennedy has maintained that vaccines or other environmental factors lead to increased autism diagnoses in children, despite research debunking the link.

April 10, 2025 - Today in a cabinet meeting, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised that “by September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures.” This alarming claim is untrue, impossible, and ...

2 weeks ago - Donald Trump is said to have gone against key aides and continued to push longtime vaccine skeptic Robert F Kennedy Jr to slash the shots for children over their alleged links to autism · Despite RFK Jr's history as a critic of vaccines, Trump allegedly surprised the health secretary when he accused him of not doing enough to research the connection and even having 'the yips' Kennedy in November personally directed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism and helped push the President to recommend against women taking Tylenol during pregnancy. However, advisers have reportedly told Trump to try and tone down his Tylenol statement and pollsters showed that both vaccine skepticism and trust in Kennedy's advice on the issue were low. The health secretary and his staff agreed to focus instead on issues that polled better, like improving the quality of food and getting rid of food dyes.

April 23, 2025 - WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September

1 week ago - “It says that none of the eight vaccines that are administered during the first six months of life have ever been studied for relationship to autism. It found two studies, one on the DTP vaccine that show that it does cause autism, and one ...

April 16, 2025 - At a press conference today in ... Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his contention that an “environmental” toxin or toxins have sent autism rates soaring in the United States, and he further described plans for his recently announced ...

2 weeks ago - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its official guidance regarding autism and vaccines, replacing long-standing assurances that immunizations do not cause autism with claims that scientific research has not definitively ruled out a connection. But the website still suggests a link between vaccines and autism, after President Donald Trump’s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the agency to revise the website’s language last year to dispute long-held conclusions from large-scale medical studies. The new changes appear to have been made to secure a crucial confirmation vote for Dr. Erica Schwartz, Trump’s nominee to lead the CDC. Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, whose support is vital for moving health nominees through the Senate Health Committee, previously signaled that he needed assurances that the agency would uphold scientific integrity before advancing her nomination. In a revision to its public guidance published July 22, the federal agency said prev

1 week ago - BASH: Do you understand why people are not getting measles vaccines? Because they're hearing you say that it could cause autism. KENNEDY: You're trying to change the subject. BASH: I'm not. It's very much related. KENNEDY: And, look, show me one of the studies that's been done on the first eight -- the vaccines during the first six months of life. You will not find them. The National Academy of Sciences states they do not exist. BASH: So, if that's the case, then why are you telling people to get the measles vaccine? KENNEDY: If people -- because that is one of the vaccines that has been studied. ... KENNEDY: It's the only one that has been studied. ... KENNEDY: Yes, I said that already. ... KENNEDY: So I know you're flustered now, and it is... BASH: I don't -- I'm not flustered at all. KENNEDY: It is frustrating because people... ... BASH: I am frustrated.